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December 31st 2013:Gold Cartel Destruction and Its Aftermath

Dimitri Speck visits for the first time. John Rubino, Gene Epstein and Daniel McAdams return. Speck’s book “The Gold Cartel” explains how the Feds are manipulating the gold price to continue conning Americans into accepting dollars. We will ask him to give us his best proof that gold is a massively manipulated market and why it should matter to the masses of people. Are there signs that gold manipulation will again contribute to destabilizing markets? And when the market implodes the next time, will gold play a role in the establishment of a new monetary regime? Or will bitcoin replace the dol

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John Rubino

John Rubino runs the popular financial website DollarCollapse.com. He is co-author, with GoldMoney’s James Turk, of The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit From It (Doubleday, 2007), and author of Clean Money: Picking Winners in the Green-Tech Boom (Wiley, 2008), How to Profit from the Coming Real Estate Bust (Rodale, 2003) and Main Street, Not Wall Street(Morrow, 1998). After earning a Finance MBA from New York University, he spent the 1980s on Wall Street, as a Eurodollar trader, equity analyst and junk bond analyst. During the 1990s he was a featured columnist with TheStreet.com and a frequent contributor to Individual Investor, Online Investor, and Consumers Digest, among many oth

Dimitri Speck

Dimitri Speck, consultant to the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee, GATA, is a quantitative asset manager, trading system developer and gold market analyst from Munich, Germany, specializing in pattern recognition of charts. Speck wrote the book “The Gold Cartel: Government Intervention on Gold, the Mega Bubble in Paper, and What This Means for Your Future,“ published late 2013.
Speck is responsible for the Stay-C commodity fund that won the Hedge Fund Journal’s award as best European commodity fund. His two investment funds, a stock fund and a commodity fund, have considerably outperformed the market since inception. He is the founder and editor of the website “Seasonal Charts” (-->

Gene Epstein

Gene Epstein, an economist of the Austrian School--and by political persuasion a libertarian--joined Barron’s in February 1992 as Commodities Editor. The following year, he became the weekly’s first Economics Editor and the first to write the column, “Economic Beat”-- his responsibility to this day. In October 2010, he also became the Barron's Book Review Editor.
Before joining Barron’s, Epstein did a 13-year stint at the New York Stock Exchange, mainly as a senior economist. He has taught economics at the City University of New York and St. John’s University and holds an M.A. in the subject from the New School and a B.A. in history from Brandeis University.
Epstein’s book, ECONOSPI

Daniel McAdams

Daniel McAdams is Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. He served as foreign affairs advisor to US Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) from 2001 until Dr. Paul’s retirement at the end of 2012. In the 1990s he worked as a journalist based in Budapest, Hungary, including as editorial page editor of the Budapest Sun. He also served as special rapporteur for the British Helsinki Human Rights Group while based in Europe, monitoring human rights and elections on the ground in various contentious states, including Albania during the 1996-1998 civil unrest, Montenegro, Georgia, Armenia, Belarus, Croatia, and Slovakia. He was a Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellow (1998